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May 22, 2012 at 1:53 pm
All of the above would make a hellava partay
May 22, 2012 at 1:59 pm
HelloKnitty! There you are! Speaking of “hellava partay,” where were you when the freaks came out to play in your hometown?? I wanted to meet you!
May 22, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Yeah–what Knitibranch said! I wanted to meet you, too!
May 22, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I NEED that green purse.
This is my truck, it’s perfect match.
May 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
I kinda want the unique hand-crafted leather purse from Britain. No, wait, I just want the generically mass-produced leather purse.
May 22, 2012 at 2:35 pm
I’m more curious as to why you would ever want a lime green purse other than to cause glaucoma at twenty paces.
May 22, 2012 at 3:19 pm
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May 22, 2012 at 4:46 pm
butbutbut… THE 80′S!!!
May 22, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I still have my lime green dayglo leather purse from the 80s!
May 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Au contraire, it would look perfect on John Boehner. Especially when he’s crying.
May 27, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Random question: is his last name pronounced any other way than “Boner”? Because that’s how I’ve been reading it. And it’s fitting, no?
May 24, 2012 at 4:22 pm
*Frantic self-justification*
*Individual replies to each dissenting comment*
*Massive flounce*
*Stormy, emotional tweets and blog posts*
May 22, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Bright colors are apparently a “thing” this season. I’ve seen some pretty eye-watering stuff on the streets the last few weeks.
May 22, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I’d really like it if it weren’t *quite* that bright.
May 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I was actually going to say “chiffon handmade flower rose” looked like it had been taken from an old cemetery, but I guess cole slaw works too.
May 22, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I always love the surprise of the last item in Compare and Save. Was SO sure Bronc would have done something with dryer lint to match the incredible awesomeness of a $550 piece of WTF on a piece of elastic.
March 17, 2013 at 4:03 am
Surely… SURELY the person that put this up missed the decimal point, and meant $5.50.
I refuse to believe otherwise… people just can’t be that dumb……… right?
May 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I have no idea why but I suddenly need that grenade necklace.
Hooray!
May 22, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I’m tempted to order it just to fulfill the curiosity of whether or not it clears customs.
May 22, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I’m ordering one right now and your newly proposed game makes the purchase so much the sweeter.
May 22, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Or if it gets you put on a list someplace.
May 22, 2012 at 7:29 pm
I dated a geologist that was working on a Uranium project in a Muslim country. If ever there was a reason to be put on a list, that would have been it.
May 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Who doesn’t like a bunch of huge balls hanging around under their chin? I’m amazed at how close the “artiste” got to the real J. Crew bubble bib necklace.
May 22, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I guess “similar to” is the new “exactly the same”
May 22, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Who doesn’t like a bunch of huge balls hanging around under their chin?
——–
…Is this a rhetorical question?
May 22, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Only if the answer is yes.
May 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm
May 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm
That tailgate cole slaw looks pretty good. The headband looks like same, regurgitated onto the coaster my kid made for me in his second grade pottery unit.
May 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm
I had been browsing those satchels on ModCloth…
http://www.modcloth.com/shop/ourdesigners/the-cambridge-satchel-company
and here’s their original retailer
http://www.cambridgesatchel.co.uk/
May 22, 2012 at 2:19 pm
AHA! You mentioned it three minutes before I did. Well played.
May 22, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Ha, it helped that I had JUST been eyeing them last week…and modcloth always pops up as an ad on this site for me. Easy to reference!
May 22, 2012 at 2:50 pm
I saw a petite 20-something girl on the subway with one of the smaller ones and I was thinking how cute it was, but too small (proportionately) for my fat old body, but now I see they come in bigger sizes!
Actually made me think of a similar-design school bag I had when I was about 8. It wasn’t leather and probably fell apart, but I loved it at the time, unironically.
May 22, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I quite often get the ad for cambridge satchel here on this site. I have a bag (brown leather) that looks a lot like theirs, which my mother gave me for my 16 birthday that seems to be undestructible (I’m 37). Anyway, I’ve been looking at their bags and wanting a smaller one in a fun color.
May 25, 2012 at 6:24 am
I just sent a message to the Etsy seller warning them about the Ebay knockoff. Now I see your comment, ugh.
It’s like those Russian nesting dolls, one inside the oth inside the other inside the other…
May 22, 2012 at 2:03 pm
I am pretty sure that ‘hand-made’ leather satchel is by the Cambridge Satchel Company. And by pretty sure I mean I have fondled them many a time.
May 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Are they nice to fondle repeatedly? I’m really thinking about buying one.
May 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Oh, they are utterly lovely to fondle. I have been meaning to invest – but I don’t know what colour I should get. All of the colours seem to be just as pleasurable to fondle. I think the only way forward is to get one in a myriad of colours.
May 22, 2012 at 2:03 pm
The party hats are by far the most offensive! I got that same grenade charm in brass for $5 at the Columbus flea market in New Jersey…and the carnie looking guy who sold it to me never bothered to claim it was OOAK or handmade. It’s a sad day when Jersey flea market hockers are more trustworthy than the sellers on Etsy.
May 22, 2012 at 4:34 pm
The party hats pissed me off the most, too.
May 22, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Me three. I bet Nickelodeon won’t be too happy either pretty soon…
May 22, 2012 at 4:54 pm
But you guys don’t understand… I actually created the Bubble Guppies party hats in my artistic ability and am now shocked to find that Nick Jr has gone and stolen this idea!
May 22, 2012 at 7:43 pm
But they’re too small to actually fit your child’s head because I don’t know how to properly set the margins on my POS HP printer and so I have to shrink them to fit a letter sized sheet. Cause I know computers.
May 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Actually the price on the coleslaw headband is the most offensive, but trying to sell party hats that are downloadable free to the public is still highly shady.
May 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm
I think that seller is deranged. She wants 400 for a crocheted choker that looks like it came free with an Arizona sweater circa 2002.
May 22, 2012 at 2:05 pm
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May 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm
The Etsy quills are $3.50 each. The Ebay quills are 80¢ each.
Since she’s only selling one on Etsy, it’s a savings of $2.70 per quill.
May 22, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Miss Killer, will this problem be on the test?
May 22, 2012 at 3:57 pm
I know your type. Friday afternoon, 2:55…”Oh, Teacher Lady? You forgot to give us homework for the weekend!”
You got stabbed with a sharp pencil a lot when the teacher wasn’t looking, didn’t you?
May 22, 2012 at 4:14 pm
I did get stabbed once. In elementary school! He got expelled and turned to a life of crime. True story.
May 22, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Geez, way to be a buzzkill, Justgus!
(Srsly, I hope you recovered quickly.)
May 22, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Oh, yeah, barely a prick. And so was he.
May 22, 2012 at 7:21 pm
by that rationale, then you don’t need a pound of coleslaw; just a 1/4 cup, or about 1/4 pound.
So, that would be a savings of $549.50.
{And with that, the thumbing down starts in 3, 2, ….}
May 22, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Damn it, that never occurred to me.
May 22, 2012 at 2:17 pm
*facepalm*
I had a bad feeling someone was going to bring that up^
May 23, 2012 at 2:02 am
The coleslaw? It does look a bit like that.
May 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Someone wasn’t very good at word problems.
May 22, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Somebody does this every single time.
And speaking of word problems, why did those two trains that left distant cities at the same time never crashed head-on? That was always a distracting thought in math class.
May 22, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Something of a welcome distraction, if I recall…
May 22, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Just imagine all the money she could make on those free hats if she could figure out how to use her printer’s “resize” setting!
May 22, 2012 at 2:24 pm
I KNOW. That’s the most offensive part of the whole thing, trying to sell party hats that don’t even fit.
May 22, 2012 at 9:44 pm
But does she realize that party hats don’t “fit”? They are supposed to be small. You add elastic to them so make them stay.
May 23, 2012 at 2:05 am
^^^THIS
May 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm
If you look at party hat lady’s site she’s printing off all of the Nick Jr. Bubble Guppy stuff and selling it. Would Nick even care if we reported her to them? I feel like that’s just wrong.
May 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm
No doubt she’s already composing her butthurt cry (to April) of copy write infringement, in letterhead of a legal agency she copied off the internet!
May 22, 2012 at 3:54 pm
I’m sure April & Bronc aren’t worried. That seller may copy letterhead from a law firm, but she’ll print it the size of the thumbnail she find, so we’ll all think it’s a totes adorbs party decoration.
May 22, 2012 at 5:30 pm
good one Mugsy Doodle!!!!
May 22, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Charging $15 for paper hats you can print out yourself for free is REALLY pissing me off. ETSY SELLERS, Y U SO SHAMELESS?
May 22, 2012 at 2:19 pm
I was just going to say, I find that ENRAGING. And they’re too small to wear! If you do it at home you can probably figure out how to resize them so you can actually get some use out of it. Seriously, f that seller. F them HARD.
May 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm
But you can use them as decoration! And she’ll totally show you how she did it when she failed to make them correctly, so you get a free idea, which seems to consist of “Put them on the mantle instead.”
No, wait, I hate her too.
May 22, 2012 at 2:15 pm
I’ve got a pretty strong stomach and there have been a lot of hysterically creepy, NSFW posts over the years on Regretsy, but something about the phrase “Bubble Guppies” completely creeps me out.
May 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Oh good, me too. I thought it sounded like it should be in the urban dictionary cross-indexed with the “sex acts involving minors” tag.
May 22, 2012 at 2:15 pm
$550.00
ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME?! Please, someone let me know if ever that item is sold. If so, I am obviously in the wrong line of work.
Being a fat, jealous loser just doesn’t pay like it used to.
May 22, 2012 at 2:27 pm
You’ll really love the hair clip she’s selling:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/88888199/hair-barrette-handmade-black-and-white
It’s only $150 (plus $15 for shipping!!!) and it looks just like the ones I buy at the flea market for $3, because I’m too lazy to glue a bow and a bead to the premade clip!
May 22, 2012 at 2:56 pm
I found a bargain: For the same price of $149, you get not one but THREE: 2 bobby pins and 1 clip.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/88457836/3-handmade-chiffon-satin-roses-mounted
May 22, 2012 at 3:50 pm
WTF? If you’re going to charge an electric bill’s worth of money for hair doodads, you better have some damn fine photography.
May 22, 2012 at 4:16 pm
It’s gotta be a goof, right– I mean, stick some shit on ETSY, charge a bundle; then see if any of those Hipster Fucktards’ll bite, right?!?!?! PLEASE!!! Tell me that’s what it is!!!!
May 22, 2012 at 4:35 pm
sadiesezwhat – I’m guessing that it’s crazed brides, who have lost all sense of proportion, who are buying that crap. They seem to buy a lot of that sort of stuff, for ridiculous prices, if The Knot crowd’s anything to go by.
May 22, 2012 at 5:53 pm
*insert “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore meme here*
I’m gonna go collect my cat’s hairballs, spray paint them a mixture of purple and chartreuse, and throw it all on a cheap-o head band I got at the Dollar Tree and sell it for $300.00.
Money problems no more.
May 23, 2012 at 3:40 am
What a joke! When I go to Venice (nowhere near as often as I’d like – once met this woman from NY on a vaporetto who goes 1x/month), I go to this place and buy their Fortuny brooches for my suit lapels (keeps my mind off my fatness by bringing the focus up a tad from my gut):
Venetia Studium
http://www.fortunyshop.com/categories/Fortuny-Clothing-and-Accessories/Fortuny-Rose-Brooch/Silk/
My inventory now contains 10 of these, they’re gorgeous and a helluva lot cheaper than this hack is charging…although if I ever order, I’d buy 4-5 due to the shipping charges.
I am so jonesing for one of these in apricot. They look so much better in person.
May 22, 2012 at 3:25 pm
You’re fucking kidding me.
I’m in the wrong line of work.
May 22, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Even better: she’s made 11 sales, has 12 positive feedbacks (not sure how that works) and has 37 admirers.
May 22, 2012 at 9:12 pm
ugh, I know right?
May 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm
The headband looks like an eye patch from Disney’s less successful movie franchise: Golden Girls of the Caribbean.
May 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm
*Sigh*
“Why is the GoldBond always gone?”
May 22, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Because I chafed it all!
May 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm
It is so very sad that someone thinks that headband is worth $550.
May 22, 2012 at 2:23 pm
And they think WE drink heavily.
May 22, 2012 at 2:28 pm
To be fair, we do.
May 22, 2012 at 3:54 pm
I love you.
March 17, 2013 at 4:06 am
I continue to hope that she missed a decimal point.
May 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Has anyone looked at the party hat lady’s bio yet?
May 22, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Is there a reason we should?
May 22, 2012 at 2:32 pm
To see if you’re as doubtful as I am that cancer is the leading cause of opening etsy shops?
May 22, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Cancer is the leading cause of Etsy shops. This is an interesting thought.
Here, have a drink. Let’s discuss. *leads SkEyesOGrey to a quiet corner*
May 22, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Ah, I see. Lady’s got cancer and is using the sales from her shop to pay medical bills and maybe donate to charity if she can decide which one is best. Okay.
That doesn’t mean bitch can rip people off by selling them something they can get for free from the actual holders of the copyright!
May 22, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Yeah, my mind went to “Maybe if I tell them I have cancer they won’t accuse me of ripping off a bunch of copyrights” Obviously, if that was her thought process it failed.
May 22, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Bitch is also stealing other people’s artwork to sell on her “Princess Collection”.
Real artist: http://ciro1984.deviantart.com/gallery/764488#/d2fn02x
Art theft is art theft. Doesn’t matter if you’re playing the cancer card or not.
May 22, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Those princessi are adorable!
May 23, 2012 at 3:04 am
Those are the cutest thing EVER! Shame on her for the theft, though.
May 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm
That last one looks exactly like the person next to me after I barfed at the last Tailgate party I attended. Only without the Pork chunks and beer.
May 22, 2012 at 2:41 pm
i feel downright impelled to add the Goddess of the Headband, there’s $45 post-use light days sanitary pad neck scrunchie:
OnlyALinkCosTheShotIsTooBig
it’s either that or it’s pre-cooked bacon wrapped round & round & thickened by fibers about which i wanna know nothing. but it isnt even fifty bucks so it’s a bargain.
she’s sold stuff, too. which astounds me, just about, cos all her prices are, you know, insane i think is the word.
May 22, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Hey! The mannequin has HK’s weed-whacker haircut.
…and the product looks like the tourniquet that I’ll need to stop the bleeding once HK’s done with me for saying that.
May 22, 2012 at 4:38 pm
You what’s scary? I actually recognize that red yarn, because I once wove a scarf out of it. And it isn’t cotton; it’s a weird “fun” blend that you can get at Michaels. It’s kinda nasty.
May 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm
You *know* what’s scary.
In fact, what’s scary is that for once I bothered previewing first!
May 22, 2012 at 2:50 pm
With that last one, I honestly think that the people who buy her stuff are all rich hippie chicks who’ve gotten ahold of daddy’s credit card and want to piss him off royally.
“Um, sugar plum, do you know what this is, for $550?”
May 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Thinking Ranka needs to move her decimal point a coupla places to the left…
May 22, 2012 at 3:06 pm
It never fails to garner a disappointed headshake in the Etsy direction from me…. Blatantly obvious resellers suck…. But at least none of them are claiming they’re a co-operative, amirite?
May 22, 2012 at 3:13 pm
No, “collective” is the new phrase du jour.
May 22, 2012 at 6:25 pm
I stand corrected. Thank you, Mugsy.
May 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm
I always love these posts because a lot of the time they highlight things I would actually buy. Not this time (although the lightning bolt would be close with different colored stones) but a lot of the time.
May 22, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I’m eying the lighting bolt necklace myself.
May 22, 2012 at 3:36 pm
This is really upsetting me today. Probably because I just got home from chaperoning 50 kindergarteners on a field trip. And when I looked at my shop which is entirerly handmade with out any “collective” help I had a whopping 19 views. You know what? This sucks.
May 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm
May I suggest linking your Regretsy handle with your shop? Heaven knows we’re a bunch of fools who’ll click on a link without thinking. And we like to shop.
May 22, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Steamy, you beat my by mere seconds!!! (Great minds think alike, right?)
May 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm
You know…you’d get more views if you linked your user name to your shop. That’s not considering pimping yourself out. Making a post and then saying, “And that reminds me of some awesome [totally unrelated] items in my shop” and posting a link–THAT is pimping.
Don’t be shy!
May 22, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Thanks guys. I will go figure out how to do that. Just knowing people with intelligence and snark want to see my shop has already made me feel better.
May 22, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Well damn, I figured it out! It goes to my business site but you can link to etsy from there. And for the love of God if you see something so bad that HK needs to post it let me know! (and I will send the link myself)
May 22, 2012 at 4:18 pm
“And for the love of God if you see something so bad that HK needs to post it let me know! (and I will send the link myself)”
YOU, my friend, are a true FJL!!!
I have favorited your shop and fallen in love with your ducky hat! (I’m not into yoga. I don’t bend much, and when I do it’s usually accompanied by painful sounds.)
May 22, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I like your stuff! Well done you!
May 22, 2012 at 9:13 pm
ooooh cool!
May 22, 2012 at 3:52 pm
I think some sellers are reading etsy’s blog feature “Quit Your Day Job” WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too much!
May 22, 2012 at 4:00 pm
I think the headband $550 because it comes with the mannequin.
May 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm
The party hats take the cake here. And get a facepalm for a gift. I’m trying to figure out how it’s okay to sell an item that is both free and under copyright, and not even be able to print it the correct size.
Also, is that ebay necklace the actual J.Crew one? If so, why would you pay more for a knockoff?
Uh, I will admit I have been lusting those satchels, but on ModCloth, not Etsy. Satchels are sexy.
May 22, 2012 at 7:28 pm
You SO need a Bohemia satchel. I love mine and it gets tons of compliments.
May 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Mugsy,
That is a true honor to be called a FJL by you! And it’s alright if you are not into yoga, I will make you a FJL/ CF4L prayer bag. I don’t know off hand what you would keep in it, I just know it would be something great.
May 22, 2012 at 4:52 pm
LEB: I just said what others were thinking!
I don’t know what I’d keep in that bag, either. Maybe some of the swag from Petja Palooza! Please make me a reserved listing and I’ll mosey on over to your shop for that bag. Thanks!!
May 22, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I see the decimal snatchers have been at it again.
May 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm
So, Ms. Bubble Guppies hats had a Bubble Guppies-themed birthday party for her kid and decided to sell the leftover favors and decorations she handicrafted (ahem, printed out from the Nick Jr website). OK then.
May 22, 2012 at 7:26 pm
I’m actually going to have to defend the satchel…that top one is definitely a Bohemia bag (I have a purple one). They’re screwing you a little on the price, but not much. Those Ebay bags aren’t the same quality.
BUT…how the fuck is someone getting away with selling a Bohemia satchel on Etsy? Not vintage, not handmade.
OH WAIT…I forgot that the staff at Etsy are fucking retarded.
May 23, 2012 at 10:29 am
It may not be a Bohemia satchel, it may be their own design. Speaking as leather crafter its a problem you run into a lot with leather goods, there’s only so many design options you have because of the material so if you are making something like a satchel they do end up looking very similar. The difference ends up being the quality of the leather and the finished product.
May 23, 2012 at 11:23 am
I thought the same, feketenoemi. It may not be original, but it doesn’t seem to be a resell or against any rules. Although, they claim to be a group of handcrafters, which sounds like a company to me.
May 23, 2012 at 11:26 am
Ah, here they are! Yeah, this is a company using their “handcraft” ideas to get on etsy. I can already buy one online! http://the.leathersatchel.co/
May 22, 2012 at 8:02 pm
As always, the Compare & Save post makes me question my crafting priorities. Now should I be applying a massive markup to mass produced crap, or just sprinkling some glitter on my cat’s hairballs and stringing it on elastic? I think I’ll just drink until the feeling passes.
May 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm
the porcupine quills aren’t actually too high priced, because not everyone wants so many in bulk
(I’ve bought those before- but in bulk)
the coleslaw is awesome, now I am hungry for it
May 22, 2012 at 9:13 pm
My favorite part is that the porcupine quills are listed on eBay as “used.” I imagine that must mean used by the porcupine. What the fuck use could a human have for porcupine quills?
May 22, 2012 at 9:14 pm
I made a frame out of some. I’d like to make another one, it was actually cool I think. It took a few hundred though.
May 23, 2012 at 7:05 am
Party hat listings are gone. HK…you’re work there is done. Rock on.
May 25, 2012 at 11:15 am
I just clicked on the party hat listing and it’s been turned into a reserved listing:
12 party hats @ $ 2.50 each = $30.00
12 party blowers @ $2.00 each = $24.00
Additional Shipping = $2.00
That lucky, lucky customer. She paid $56 for shit she could have printed off the internet.
But the best part (to me) is that in the listing text it says “Please do not purchase unless this is you.”
Umm…
May 23, 2012 at 11:20 am
Dude, that batch of porcupine quills is awesome. I may need these in my living room.
I will say that though the dayglo green bag is generic looking, it is NOT the same as the photo below. The dimensions are different. I don’t think they are a reseller, I just think they have no creativity.
May 23, 2012 at 11:33 am
Also, the bubble statement necklace is just a knockoff. They aren’t a reseller either. All the filagrees are different from J Crew, as well as the type of plastic stonelike thing.
May 25, 2012 at 9:34 am
They don’t all have to be resellers. The woman with the party hats was selling something she got for free off the internet.
As far as the necklace, it’s a copy of a J. Crew piece. She did a good job copying it, and I don’t doubt that someone made it by hand. It’s still a knockoff, and the real thing is cheaper.
May 25, 2012 at 11:01 am
Not from my perspective they aren’t. They look PRECISELY the same.
May 25, 2012 at 11:09 am
Oops, has this page really been up for two hours? It took me that long to work through the comments?
I don’t know, maybe I need to look closer. I honestly cannot see a difference between the JCrew one and the knockoff. Even the color options are the same. And that’s the only jewelry she sells–the rest of her items are fascinators and the like. (By the way, I’d never even heard of a fascinator before I started reading this site. I’m sure I’ve been bettered by the knowledge, even if I can’t figure out how.)
I assumed that’s why she asks you to allow 7-8 days for delivery–three days for it to get to her house from JCrew, about five minutes to attached the “Made With Love” tag, and then another four to five days to get from her house to yours.
May 25, 2012 at 8:26 am
Why are the satchels featured? The etsy sellers use UK manufacturers to craft their leather bags. There are a couple of other brands such as The Original satchel Co & The Cambridge satchel Co which are all ethical brands manufactured in the UK and all have similar price points. On eBay however, you can buy cheaper knock offs that are manufactured in china. Why are you pooh-poohing the UK based manufacturer and calling them expensive rips?
I might have got the wrong end of the stick here.
p.s. I LURRRVVEEEEEEE regretsy.
May 25, 2012 at 9:28 am
“Why are the satchels featured? The etsy sellers use UK manufacturers to craft their leather bags. “
That’s why they’re featured.
Etsy sellers are not supposed to use manufacturers to craft their products. They’re supposed to make them by hand. Listing factory-made bags in the “handmade” category is reselling. That’s what Ebay is for.
May 25, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Ahhhhhhhh I get you! I feel a bit stupid now. I had it in my head that the etsy ones were the originals and the ebay ones were ripping off their designs but I suppose it could be the other way round. And yeah they are definitely not handmade regardless where they are made or whose original it was.
May 31, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Wow – lots of etsy sellers like to handmake the same necklace:
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?search_submit=&q=jcrew+necklace+bubble&order=most_relevant&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US
June 13, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Yes, I don’t doubt that all these Jcrew replica necklaces are all handmade, just by folks living in another country! http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/457681407-Auth-Bubble-Necklace-TURQUOISE-BLUE-RV-150-wholesalers.html
October 15, 2012 at 8:01 pm
The lightning bolt seller has been shut down and the Gupple hats (or whatever) are gone from the other page. Success!